#7 Fun Brain Games

[ruporas]

trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)

[countryhouseresidenceomaha]

7 Fun Brain Games for Older Adults to Try

Following a senior loved one’s dementia diagnosis, it may feel challenging to find games and activities that will be both enjoyable and stimulating for them. After all, playing games can be a great way to connect and make memories as well as keep their brain engaged. At CountryHouse, we understand the importance of keeping those living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias mentally active and engaged. That's why we're excited to share with you seven fun brain games that can help improve cognitive function and overall well-being.

As a leading provider of dementia care and the best memory care in Omaha, we're committed to enhancing the lives of our residents and supporting their families. Let's explore these engaging brain games that are perfect for those living with Alzheimer's disease:

Memory Card Games

Games like "Concentration" or "Memory" are excellent for enhancing memory skills. Lay out a deck of cards face down and encourage your loved one to find matching pairs.

Word Puzzles

Crossword puzzles, word searches, and even simple anagram games can help improve vocabulary and cognitive function. You can find books with puzzles specifically designed for seniors.

Jigsaw Puzzles

Completing jigsaw puzzles not only exercises the brain but also provides a sense of accomplishment. Start with puzzles of varying difficulty levels and gradually increase the complexity.

Trivia Quizzes

Host a fun trivia quiz session with questions related to your loved one's interests. This game can stimulate memory recall and encourage social interaction.

Music and Song Matching

Play some of your loved one's favorite songs and encourage them to identify the song titles or the artists. Music can be a powerful memory enhancer.

Arts and Crafts

Engaging in creative activities like painting, drawing, or crafting can be mentally stimulating and provide a wonderful outlet for self-expression.

Storytelling

Share stories from the past or create new ones together. This activity fosters imagination and encourages verbal communication.

As you introduce these brain games into your loved one's daily routine, remember to be patient and offer plenty of encouragement. The goal is to make the activities enjoyable and stress-free.

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In conclusion, helping your loved one engage in fun brain games can improve their cognitive function and overall quality of life. By incorporating these activities into their daily routine, you can provide them with the mental stimulation they need. And if you believe it's time to explore memory care options, remember that CountryHouse is here to provide the best care and support for those living with Alzheimer's disease. 

Please reach out to us today to learn more about our communities and how we can assist your family. Your loved one deserves the best, and that's precisely what we offer at CountryHouse.

[spoopup]

sharing this gif i made with the class

[crescentfool]

i've been doing a bunch of tartarus runs in reload lately, and it got me thinking about how i miss certain ways FES's clunky gameplay can characterize minato… (ramble about the great clock mechanic + leveling up party members in reload vs fes under the cut)

when i got to yabbashah block in tartarus (block 3), i remember commending the developers for adding the great clock mechanic. it's a much more convenient way to keep party members at the protagonist's level- so when you think about p3 from the perspective of trying to make it easier for people to play, the mechanic succeeds in this respect.

but now that i'm in adamah block, and that i've done lots of my once-a-month tartarus runs… i think that i got a little too dependent on it, and the way that i played through reload feels like a vastly different experience from how i played FES.

in reload, my party's levels are very lopsided. minato, yukari, akihiko, mitsuru, and fuuka are all level 90+, meanwhile junpei and aigis are at level 79, and then… poor ken and koromaru are at 71 and 64 respectively. (i never got to have a great clock for them…)

meanwhile, in FES, my party's levels were much more evenly distributed and were at least level 90. i did all of this manually for every monthly tartarus run because i enjoyed having options available for the taratarus guardians and monthly operations.

with how i perceive minato, i feel that the way i played FES feels more in-line with his character than me dawdling around waiting for the great clocks in reload.

FES's gameplay loop left me with the very strong impression that minato has to work twice as hard as everyone else in SEES does. it makes sense because, yeah, he's the leader, but something about having minato run through tartarus multiple times with different groups of people just to make sure that they are adequately prepared speaks volumes about his character, to me.

and while the tired mechanic is present in reload to some degree, most notably with allowing you to freely raise your courage stat when you visit edogawa after school… the tiredness system doesn't hit the same way that FES does, i think.

the way your party members in FES will call it quits when they return to the entrance floor at tartarus when they're tired, versus minato, in spite of all his tiredness and sickness, still pushes through tartarus because it's his responsibility…. idk!!! i miss that! i feel like this really hammers home the difference between minato and the rest of SEES, how minato doesn't really see himself as a human with needs worth respecting as long as he's useful to someone.

i don't think that tartarus being tedious (in FES especially) is not what most people would describe as fun, and i can respect people thinking it's a slog. but, regardless of how it feels to play, it doesn't change that FES's gameplay loop is a fundamental building block in how i perceive minato…

of course, i do recognize that you can just opt to NOT use the great clock in reload (and it's great when players are offered the choice to not partake in mechanics)! i definitely think that if someone really wanted to, they could manually level up party members, but i do feel that kind of playstyle isn't necessarily "incentivized" to the type of people who are into playing games for Having a Good Time. it's kind of like… "why would you do that when there's a much more convenient option available to you."

in any case! despite my woes, i do want to emphasize that i'm glad that reload has a much more smoother gameplay loop than the original P3 did, because it does make the game more accessible to people. having played both FES and reload, it feels very strongly apparent to me how the core gameplay formula of persona has really been refined in the past 18 years (to think og p3 was 2006 and reload is 2024.. time flies!). and reload has made revisiting a story that i love so dearly much, much easier because the gameplay just bops!

at the same time, due to my "i miss characterization informed by weird and dated FES gameplay quirks" woes, i still think that playing FES is worthwhile. (really, i feel this way about all iterations of p3! i think it's worthwhile to see what each version and side media has to say even if it doesn't Land™ for you.) but i also understand why people wouldn't want to play it, so i will keep writing posts about things i liked from FES's gameplay because i'm still very fond of FES (especially in respects to minato. these mechanics are so telling about him!!!) 💪

[organised-disaster]

Killing her

[dat-silvers-girl]

History often tends to repeat itself.

ft. Carewyn @carewyncromwell because we need the responsible friend also mom plz stop her

If I considered Jacob going blind actually canon, (I don't cuz it's a stupid plotline) then I think about how genuinely desperate Sarahi would be to heal him. And like Sebastian, she's willing to do just about anything. Dark magic would be fair game.

Funnily enough, the only thing stopping Sarahi from going down the rabbit hole of Dark Magic is that... she's an idiot.

Sebastian is a scholar and taught himself the Unforgivables. You know how much effort and genius that takes??? And then there's Sarahi... Fully dependent on Rowan, and later, on everyone else, to even understand what's written in basic textbooks because she doesn't have the braincells to process information. Someone will need to teach her unforgivables on purpose. And who would do that?

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Rakepick. Yeah. Sarahi knows Crucio because Rakepick taught her. She's never used Crucio, but she does know it. Dammit Rakepick.

[thedrotter]

redrew a few old expressions from february!!! one never notices how much their art style changes in some months till you compare side by side www

(the old ones for comparison ↓)

[stinkrascal]

im gonna be unwell about this game for so long

[the-physicality]

you know there's a lot of yaps about oh stewie beats dt records by 1 game per. well arike set 3972 [dallas franchise record] in 193 games, stewie in 194, dt in 195. [a'ja in 197, edd in 198]

but as far as ages go, it's lj, dt, arike. [asterisk obviously being lj came in at age 20 and americans came in at 21 or older. in this instance lj started just after her 20th, and dt just before her 22nd. lj is a month and a year older than dt. fun fact maya moore is exactly 7 years younger than dt]

and interestingly enough in the span of a week in 2009, 3 people hit that milestone: becky [8/29], dt [9/1], tamika [9/4]

sheryl swoopes, tina thompson, and katie smith all did it in june of 2006 [2-19]

lisa leslie was the first person in the w to hit this milestone, in 2004, nearly 2 years before anyone else would do it

sue and becky took the same number of games to get there [315]

of the 20 youngest people to hit 3972 [everyone who's hit it under 31 years], the list consists of 14 number 1 draft picks [db and arike went 5, cappie went 2- after Seimone augustus who is also on this list, tamika went 3-but drafted with an sei, and candice dupree and crystal langhorne went 6]

48 players have hit this milestone. of the ones that entered the regular wnba draft [ie were not allocated]

5 did it from 1999, 2004, and 2006 draft classes

4 did it from 2001 class [LJ, penny taylor, tamika catchings, katie douglas]

3 did it from 2002, 2008, 2009, and 2013 classes

2006 draftees 1-4 have all hit it

2013 is the only class to have only 1-3 make it

no one has hit this milestone from the draft classes of 2000, 2005, 2007, or 2017

tangela smith [1998], plenette pierson [2003], tina charles [2010], kayla mcbride [2014], jewell loyd [2015], stewie [2016], a'ja [2018], and arike [2019] are the only players in their draft class to hit the milestone

of the 2019 draft class, only 8 players have hit 1000 points, and the next closest to arike [3972] is napheesa collier with 2724, and she was out for a year on maternity leave

arike has also played nearly 800 minutes more than the next 2019 player, jackie young

[direwombat]

god i can't wait to go home and do picrews/other tag games this evening and spend the rest of the weekend working on fic

[leavemetoplaythesims]

i have over 156 hours in bg3 and i haven't even ever gotten past act two

[shannonsketches]

They’re not a super popular ship in terms of romance, but they’re 100% a thing and always side by side in fan works more often than Ganondorf with Bowser, so they’re a duo for sure (that and OoT came out around the same time as FFVII I think so more shared history there)

Ah, see I think I've seen more Ganondorf and Bowser associations because of Brawl's plot giving them some shared screen time (and of course both being big Nintendo properties, and growing up with the jokes about Nintendo having one (1) color palette for BBEGs). Not in a ship sense, just their general "I know that guy from work" fan stuff.

But I don't really shop in Final Fantasy or the latest SSB sectors often, so I haven't seen them before!

[dbphantom]

WHOAG I slept for 14 hours and had a very long dream about Bl/3 H2O au

[rjsals]

also just want to put this out there bc i've had a lot of time (months) to think it over and i'm convinced keonhee would be so much fun to make out with bc he wouldn't really try too hard to be sexy even though he is or be afraid to be a little clumsy and will just get caught up in the moment with you.. maybe crack a joke in between playfully biting down on your bottom lip and moving down to your jaw just to hear you chuckle or feel you smile against his lips. he'd try to coax some pleas out of you just for fun and once he succeeds he'd get so serious about it too bc keonhee doesnt half ass anything and he needs you breathless by the time he's finished with you. even if it's just so he can use it to tease you later.

[commanderfloppy]

Music Game!

Got tagged again this time by @commanderthalys

RULES: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people. No skipping!

This time I decided to try and hit random on a few different saved playlists and stations I have on my music streaming so I'm not just giving everyone an extra big dose of video game songs again (ok maybe I'll hit random on a few video game songs)

Q.U.E.E.N. - Janelle Monáe ft. Erykah Badu

Love Shack - The B-52's

Bad Romance - Lady Gaga

Masterpiece Theatre III - Marianas Trench

Shut Up And Drive - Rihanna

I'll Make a Man Out Of You - Mulan

Body - Megan Thee Stallion

Heartbeat, Heartbreak - Persona 4

Usseewa - Ado (Pjsekai cover)

Whims of Fate - Persona 5

[asiancatboy]

i need sons of the forest to come out soooo bad 😖